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<blockquote data-quote="Hacker News" data-source="post: 74500" data-attributes="member: 365">I'm an old MS-DOS / Windows programmer used to Turbo Pascal, Delphi, etc. The old days were simple, in that you compiled code, and gave it to your customers. Everything just works.Now every time I try to learn something new... there's always a build system in the way, with MSTOICAL it was Autoconf, with switching to Linux, I couldn't get WikidPad to build on Linux, trying to build a lifeboat for Twitter, Python works, but then modules require builds that break.Is it possible to have a system without Make or the like?Alternatively, any good resources for the above?<hr />Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33574154" target="_blank">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33574154</a>Points: 6# Comments: 4<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33574154" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hacker News, post: 74500, member: 365"] I'm an old MS-DOS / Windows programmer used to Turbo Pascal, Delphi, etc. The old days were simple, in that you compiled code, and gave it to your customers. Everything just works. Now every time I try to learn something new... there's always a build system in the way, with MSTOICAL it was Autoconf, with switching to Linux, I couldn't get WikidPad to build on Linux, trying to build a lifeboat for Twitter, Python works, but then modules require builds that break. Is it possible to have a system without Make or the like? Alternatively, any good resources for the above? [HR][/HR] Comments URL: [URL]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33574154[/URL] Points: 6 # Comments: 4 [url="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33574154"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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